The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We are informed that we have not stated correctly the the nature of the punishment which the Government have resolved to inflict on Mr. Young and Mr. Webber, two thoughtless lads who were found guilty the other day at the Old Bailey of being present at a recent miserable duel. Our error consists in our having attached " hard labour" to the twelve months' imprisonment." Hard labour," we are told, forms no part of the punishment. We doubted greatly, notwithstanding the authority on which we received the intelligence, whether any such punishment as twelve months' imprisonment (with or without hard la bour) was to be inflicted on these young men ; and there fore we made no observation on the announcement, but published it in the form in which we received it. In ad verting now to this punishment and to the duel at Wim bledon, we are quite prepared for pretended misconstruc tion and really malicious misrepresentation of our opinions and of our language, however cautiously and however clearly we may be careful to express ourselves. But be lieving that it is our duty to speak plainly, and with out reserve, on this case, we trust that if the risk of unjust censure were ten thousand times as great, we should steadily discharge that duty, confident that the good sense of the community would right us in the end, and that in the purity of our motives and in the sincerity of our opi nions we should receive consolation and support until we triumphed in a consummation which, however delayed, must certainly be at last achieved. With This preface we proceed at once to the object we have in view. That ob ject is to entreat most earnestly of the Government, of that part of the community who, by station and character, should have weight with the Government, to consider well whether it is not alike unjust and unwise to visit these young men with more than a nominal punishment. We know very well what the law upon the subject is, and it would be as idle in us to descant upon that as it would be for any one who is opposed to the views we entertain on this subject to throw the law in our teeth. But see what the custom has been—custom which prevails over the law, and is obeyed where the law would be laughed at—custom whose empire is universal,because, unlike law, it is familiar to all men, and not unknown even to moderately preco cious children. What, then, we ask, has been the custom in regard to duelling, and to the punishment of those who have been concerned in duelling ? In other words, what has been the doctrine, what the practice, with regard to duelling? For the doctrine as generally received, we know not where it has been better expressed than in the following passage :—" As men become in a high degree refined, various causes of offence arise which are considered to be of such importance, that life must be staked to atone for them, though in reality they are not so. A body that has received a very fine polish may be easily hurt. Before men arrive at this artificial refinement, if one tells his neighbour he lies, his neighbour tell him he lies ; if one gives his neighbour a blow, his neighbour gives him a blow; but in a state of highly polished society, an affront is held to be a serious injury. It must, therefore, be resented, or rather a duel must be fought upon it ; as men have agreed to banish from society one who puts up with an affront with out fighting a duel. Now, it is never unlawful to fight in self-defence. He, then, who fights a duel does not fight from passion against his antagonist, but out of self defence, to avert the stigma of the world, and to prevent himself from being driven out of society. I could wish there was not that superfluity of refinement ; but while such notions prevail, no doubt a man may lawfully fight a duel." It is no brawler, no bully, no hot-headed fellow, that speaks here. The words are the words of no less a person than the celebrated Dr. Johnson, whom everybody knows to have been equally eminent for piety and for learning. Let us, however, not be mistaken. We freely admit that the Doctor's reasoning is not satisfactory. Another distin guished writer, generally a much looser moralist than Dr. Johnson, has placed this question of duelling in a more proper point of view. Defining the fombidden crime of " murder" to be the deliberate taking away of human life otherwise than by public authority, he says—" If authorized l aws o f h onour b e a ll owe d to create ex ceptions. to Divine prohibitions, there is an end of all morality, as founded in the will of the De:ty ; and the obligation of every duty may, at one time or other, be discharged by ca p r i ce an d fl uc tuations of fashion." We cheerully confess that we entirely subscribe to this view of the question ; and we have quoted Dr. Johnson, not for the purpose of showing what the orthodox doctrine is, but merely to demonstrate how high authority the received, the general, the popular doctrine, may call to its aid. And for the practice in this matter of duelling, how has that been ? The late Duke of York and the late Duke of Richmond fought a duel, their seconds being the late Marquis of Hastings and the late Lord Winchilsea. Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr. Tierney, Mr. Flood, Mr. Grattan , Mr. Curran, Mr. Canning, and the late Lord London • derry (seconded by Lord Seaford and the Marquis of Hertford), Sir F. Burdett, the Duke of Buckingham and the Duke of Bedford, the Duke of Wellington, and Lord Winchilsea (seconded by Sir H. Hardinge and Lord Fal mouth), have all set the example of an appeal to duelling as a means of obtaining or giving satisfaction for affronts, real or imaginary. And this list might be multiplied an hundredfold ; for there is scarcely a public man of any mark or likelihood who has not been concerned in a duel either as principal or second ; or who has not invited or shown no disposi tion to avoid a duel. Let it, moreover, be considered, that scarcely a month passes during the Session of Par!'ament in which there are not several instances of Members who publicly intimate that they will resent by dueling expressions at which they have taken offence in debate ; that in private society duelling is always resorted to as a means of redressing grave affronts not atoned for by apology, and that if five minutes after these observations meet the eye of any member of the Government—of Lord John Russell, for instance, the Home Secretary—he hap pens to be personally insulted by any one in his own rank of life, his Lordship must—nay, readily will—have recourse to duelling by way of satisfaction. We say again, let these facts be borne in mind—let this doctrine and this practice be kept in view, and where is the sound-headed and sound hearted man who will deny that to pounce suddenly upon two lads who have merely been spectators of a duel, and punish them with twelve months' imprisonment, is cruel, unjust, and unwise? We may be told that punishment is inflicted on these young men in order to put an end to duelling ; but this is worse than nonsense. If the Ministers desire to attempt the achievement of that ob ject (we pass no opinion, because we are not called upon to pass any, respecting the propriety or the practica bility of such an experiment) they ought to use fair means. It is not fair suddenly, in the month of Sep tember of this year, to visit with a heavy punishmeat two lads who merely looked on at a proceeding which the doc trine and practice of high moralists and of the most dis tinguished members of the Commonwealth have taught them to consider not as innocent only—not as laudable merely—but as, under given circumstances, positively in dispensable. No ; the fair, the just, and therefore the wise course would be for the Government to give notice that for the future they will enforce the law in regard to duelling. Any man who fought a duel, or wlt was the spectator of one, would, after that notice, have no right to complain if he were sent to Guildford gaol for a twelve month. But to make victints without notice, as in this case, is a proceeding very little less unjust than' ex post facto legislation ; and we do most fervently hope, more for the sake of the character of the executive branch of our constituted Government, than for the relief of the unlucky persons who are in Guildford gaol, that the Ministers will, on reflection; see the propriety of restoring Mr. Young and Mr. Webber to their fa milies and friends, making publicly known, at they will the same time, if th ey p l ease, that hereafter p unish as severely as the la w w ill a d m i t, and the circumst ancestuedels S o of the case may seem t o j ust if y , a ll parties in f u will the abhorrers of d ue lli ng b e propitiated ; so a u in justice, and, conseq uent l y a great disgrace, will be gret avoided so,in all probability, two y oung men, who, it w ionly s charitable to suppose, are fitted for b e t ter t hi ngs, will betaught to eschew the bad society and haunts of wicked ness they have hitherto h e hitherto frequented, whi c h, a f ter the contamination incident to twelve months' residence i n gao l , can hardly be expected. Times. The Tory papers, and particularly the Times, becau se , as it would seem , they can find no otiter r ground of att ac k, are still firing small shot at Minister s fora supposed often nhe prin ciple arc 7 aban donment of the app ro p riatio n principle. How f to tell them tha t Ministers, instead of abandoning last Sessio n, re-asserted it in the most forcible mann e by insisting upon retainin g on the journals the resolutions of April, 1835, and thereby pledging the present House of Commons to the principle laid down and asserted by the last ? In addition, our readers will not have forgotten that when the Irish Tithe Act was introduced, Lord John Russell and Lord Morpeth, in terms not to be misun derstood or misrepresented (and therefore the Tines is care ful to steer clear of what they then said), explained that al though they could not. do all the good they wished by car rying the appropriation clause, that was no sufficient reason for doing nothing. Ministers were resolved to make the experiment of the effect of the Bill without an ap propriation clause, rather than run the risk of leaving the law as it then stood. This is the answer we make to ob jectors generally ; but we might say much more to the Times, which down to January, 1835 (only three month s before the resolutions in fa vo ur of appropriation were of adopted by the House Commons ), bad called the abomination, Irish Church Church "an which might be o v er turned on grounds not involving English Church." Then it was to ah the t our consistent Con temporary maintained that theadoption of the appropri ation principle was necessary the very existence it of the Irish Church, although now ins;sts that it Wag invented for the mere purpose of destroying that Church . then it was that the Times threatened the Hoese of Commons with visitations from the constituent body if it did not " take up the question of appropriation,": with a view to the instant enforcement of it : then it was that the Times pronounced the Tories who resisted the principle " inveterate obstructives, bent only upon gaining power at Th e expense of honour, justice, and the welfare of the people." Heaven knows that we do not refer to these expressions for the sake of proving that the Times upon this question, as upon many others, has basely deserted its own deliberate and often repeated opi nions ; that requires no fresh evidence at this time of day. Nor do we quote them because its sentiments were then or are now of the smallest value. We do not even wish to apply to it its own stale quit tulcrit Gracchos, &c., but merely to show what sort of advocates are most in favour with the Tory party. The truth is that the Tories are willing to lean upon any thing for support in their distress, and they find in the Times a most congenial instrument. In proportion as it is unprincipled and subservient, it answers their purpose to employ it.—Morning Chronicle. Of all subjects of pree sing political interest, there is none of which it is more desirable to form a correct appreciation, and none upon which opinion deviates into a "eater variety of error, than the character, powers, and tendency of the present popular demonstrations. While one party treats, or affects to treat them with ridicule and contempt amount ing to disgust, regarding them merely as the foetid exhala tions of ignorance fermenting amongst the masses, another regards them with unqualified homage, believing the justice and wisdom of their counsel to be as indisputable as the guidance of Omniscience itself. In both opinions, but es pecially in the first, there is much danger to the preserva tion of that harmony amongst the elements of society which is as essential to the general welfare as to the safe and steady progress of political regeneration. The errors of a reflecting and thinking peopl speedily rectify themselves, and at no period in the history of the human mind were Reflection and Thought so active amongst the masses of mankind as at present, and by no people so vigorously exer cised as by the British pubic. The great danger, therefore, lies in regarding the present manifestation of popular sentiment as unworthy to exercise any influence on the Legislature or Government of the country. To treat the people with de rision is not the way to correct their errors, and must ne cessarily excite feelings of animosity calculated to prevent the adjustment of conflicting opinions, and dang:rous to the public welfare and public peace. It must be borne in mind, that if some of the political doctrines current amongst the millions be erroneous or inapplicable to the circum stances of the time and the complicated relations of society, even amongst the highest class of the aristocracy prevail errors of a yet more monstrous character—errors not only adverse to the present condition of society, but op posed to the eternal principle of justice and right— errors in which to participate involves not only an in competency to exercise the most ordinary powers of rea son, but an inability to recognise the most obvious truths. Is there any thing in " Universal Suffrage"—the ultra claim of the people—more opposed to truth and justice then in " divine right," the creed in which the other extreme would entrench itself? Is it less ex pedient or less practicable, as a principle of Government ? Is there anything in the most ignorant and stupid man of the community claiming a voice in the laws by which he is to be governed, more monstrous than in the claim put for ward by the Duke of Newcastle, to coerce his tenantry to vote according to his orders, on the principle that " a man may do what he likes with his own?" How many of the Aristocracy act on the same principle, and deny those over whom they can exercise any controul, the most pre cious right of man—the right of thought? Yet while withholding this right, the exercise of which tends more than anything else to elevate the character of man, they exclaim against the ignorance of the people— an ignorance where it exists of which the mismanage ment of the ruling powers is the chief cause. They first accumulate every appliance to keep the people in ignorance and degradation, and then pour scorn on the vic tims of their injustice. Such is the relative position of the extreme sections of society. It may be difficult to say on which side is displayed the greater ignorance as regards the best means of advancing the interests of the nation and of man, but of the side on which injustice preponderates there can be no question. One claims a paramount influence for what is called " the rights of property," the other for the rights of persons. These conflicting claims we shall take another opportunity to examine. At present we will ob serve, that between these extremes exist the great body of the industrial and intellectual classes, in whom centres the great force of public opinion. Were the present manifestations the exhibition of mere physical force, powerful as they would he in themselves, they might be expected to produce but little impression on the Legis lature. But with physical force they combine a great moral and intellectual force, which must give them an irresistible influence on the future government of the country. if in their claims the people err, it is in giving to an abstract right a prominency unsuitable to the capabilities of a populous country and a complicated state of society. This, however, does not argue such gross igno rance as some would ascribe to the people, as to attach too great importance to an abstraction is never the error of ignorance. Undoubtedly the people want efficient leaders, and therefore is it the more to be regretted that those who might lead from position, if not from talent, instead of placing themselves at the head of the Movement, should blindly attempt to arrest its progress. We ha% e no doubt, however, that in one quarter or another men will be found suited to the emergency of the time, and in this hope we look to the present demonstrations as calculated to subvert the designs of factions, and exercise a most timely and salutary influence on the destinies of Great 13ritain.--s Morning Advertiser. The Fourth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commis sioners, as presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of her Majesty, has just been printed. The Commissioners state that the general result of the Act as respects the burthen upon the rate-payers continues satis factory ; but express their inability (the entire country not haling yet been formed into Unions) to state accurately the increase or diminution of pauperism throughout England and Wales. From the portion already in their possession of a table which the Commissioners have ordered to be prepared, but which is not yet complete, they think them• selves warranted in the inference that the diminution of expenditure for the year ending March, 1838, as com pared with that for the year ending March, 1834, ex ceeds 2,300,0001. From a table exhibiting the expendi ture of the years ending respectively on the 25th of March, 1837 and 1838, for the 200 Unions, which have been more than two years in existence, it appears that the expenditure for the latter year was 1,269,854/., and for the former 1,187,3461., showing an increase of 82,5081. The Commissioners remark here that this small increase indicates general good management on part of the Guardians, considering the augmented price of food in the latter year, the severity of the last winter, and the stagnation in trade and manufactures. This re mark would be liable to the censure, that it seems to at tach too exclusive an importance to the merit of koeping down expenditure, were it not that the Commissioners produce elsewhere much evidence leading to the conclusion that the persons entitled to relief have not been subjected to any additional severities or privations. The average annual expenditure of these 200 parishes before their union, appears by the table to have been 0 ,193,483 i., or nearly a million per annum more than the present charge. But the table is silent as to the number of years included in the average expenditure antecedent to the unions, a remark able, not to say a suspicious omission ; and we have reason to believe that this column of the table is made up of the total amounts formerly collected under the name of Poor rates, a fund then chargeable with payments now otherwise provided for. Making, however, the utmost possible al lowance on account of the circumstances we have mentioned, it will still appear that the re d uct i on o f ex p e nse has be en very considerable. The report contains a great body of evidence, much of which is of a very interesting charac ter, tending to show that, in addition to the pecuniary ad vantages already ment i oned, the Poor Law A men d men t Act has been productive of the following still more im portant results :-Ist, more prompt and adequate re lief to the aged, the infir m , an d t h e s i c k ; 2d, en couragement of the industry and moral habits, and the consequent increase im o p f ro t , h e welfare of the labouring pauperelasses ; eb a i n id d r , e t n h . irdl thirdly, improvement all dueme a t lio in wa t n h e e e e fe d r uc tb a e tionof whomaffec tion twhichbey brio; be Commissioner sre tbe p u b a l n i e d nm the e y e of the, character of dhietho theycherish n th e e ss a e aretoawea.rds a system, in Lminaiystrhaetiosenpopp eerfsowni wit nesses, is impossible to peruse this report without imbibing it a pretty confident persuasion that with whatever even vices, th e P oor L aw Amendment Act imperfections, Aet or may in some respects be charge a bl e , it h as operated, and is operwing, upon the whole, advantageously to the community, and es pecially to that class of the community upon whom it is ac cused of inflicting gratuitous • d" in Ignites and fering.—M orn i ng P ost. unnecessary suf- The " Napoleon of Peace " as his flatterers some time since very ab sur dl y styled Lc; • appears, anothers Louis Philippe has gai ne d, it of those victories th I liar genius is ca p a bl e o f achieving, , eon y ones his some thingNeu- the very opp os i te o f glory. to which house of B our b on which belongs has at length vanqui s h e d the ho use of Bonaparte, Loui s Philippe at the he a d o f a m i g h ty nation armies, and a whole legion o f sp i es at his with fleet s a n d command, h as triumphed over Louis Napoleon, a simple citizen, a fugitive, the bearer of a name familiar with misfortune, rne, exile, who having found an asylum amo ng th e Swiss mountains,tu is driven thence by the persecution of a race, of whotl late Emperor of the French truly said that they " learn nothing and forget nothing." What was true of th e e ld er branch of the house of Bourbon, which " has ceased to reign," is true also of the younger branch which now reigns. Whether the latter is destined like the former, to afford yet to the world another instructive example of the fickleness of fortune and the mutability of human grandeur, INC cannot say ; but this is certain, that whether the reigning branch be destined to a prosperous or an adverse fate, its conduct is such as is not calculated to inspire either admiratio n of its success or sympathy for its misfortunes. There are two motives which have actuated Louis Philippe in his persecu tion of Louis Napoleon—the one a little, mean , vindictive jealousy of that name which is associated with an era of the greatest glory which the page of French history presents — the other an abject wish to gratify the Autocrat of Russia by rnakin; an attack upon the independence of Switzerland a country whose real liberty, the price of as great sacrifices as any heroic people ever made in defence of their . national existence and honour, puts toshame themockery of freedom which "young France"enjoysunder the sceptre of herCi v tiz.n King. We cannot separate f. ern the persecution of a..ouis Napoleon the disgraceful disclosures which took place relative to the intrigues of the French Government in Switzerland, through the agency of the spy when the " liberal" M. Thiers was Louise,Philippe's favourite Minister. M. Thiers, while persccnting real liberty in Switzerland, was so great an admirer of stock-jobbing Liberalism in Spain, that he wanted to send a French army across the Pyrenees to assis t Palmerston 'tos " buccaneering war," in forcing a sovereign on an inde pendent nation by the " liberal" logic of foreign b lyonets. When we hear it said that Louis Napoleon plotted against the peace of France, can we forget that the French Go vernment by its political agents did itself stir up plots in Switzerland, for the purpose of alarming the northern i Powers, and affording them a plausible pretext to nvade its independence? Such Machisvelian policy, though pros perous for a time, cannot in the end come to good. We suspect that the triumph which Louis Philippe now obtains, in compelling one of the family of Bonaparte to renounce the asylum which the generous hospitality of the Swiss people opened tohirri, will yet bear bitter fruits for France. Toe political importance which now invests the name of the young member of the Bonaparte family Las been created by the persecution of which he has so long been the object. drive from a hospitable shelter ainid the Swiss mountains a politi , al exile, obscure in everything but his family name, is the mighty achievement which the possessot of " the throne of July" has accomplished! \Vhat a victory where with to embellish the annals of the Gauls in the nineteenth century ! We can hardly condemn the 'young Bonaparte for renouncing his asylum in Switzerland, rather than in volve his adopted country in a war with the country of his birth ; and yet with some show of reason it may be said that he ought to have either taken this stt p earlier or not taken it at all. Has he yielded to any secret solicitations made to him rather by the friends of Louis Philippe than his own ? Certainly the " Citizen-King" would have been placed in a very awkward predicament if Louis Napoleon had abided by what appeAred to be his first determination of insisting on his rights of Swiss citizenship, and putting to the proof the courage of Louis Philippe in his bullying conduct towards the Swiss Republic. Would the "Napo leon of Peace" have dared to invade Switzerland ? We think not ; but if he had, different indeed would have been the enterprise against a nation of brave men, from his grand expedition with 50,000 men, under the command of Marshal Gerard, against the isolated city of Antwerp. We fear that even with Leopold and the Belgic " braves" at his elbow, the " Citi zen King," had he invaded Switzerland, would have made sad work of it. What a sight it would have been for the contemplation of Europe to have beheld the tricoloured flag of July unfurled, like the oriflamme of northern despotism some years ago in Poland, against the mountain home of liberty in the Helvetian mountains! The cause of the northern despot triumphed because France betrayed and Enghind deserted Poland. " Order reigns at Warsaw !" was the exclamation of the Government of J u ly th rou the mouth of Count Sebastiani when the capture of the capital of Poland was announced. Had Louis Philippe com menced his crusade against Swiss independence, it would be a long time before he would be able to exclaim " order reigns in Switzerland." He would have found every moun tain a fortress—every ravine a redoubt. The rocks that beat back the waves of Burgundian' and Austrian invasion would have shattered the brigand warfare of the " Na poleon of Peace," and crumbled along with it the " throne of July." A war with the feeble and remote state of Mexico—an assault of an isolated Dutch garrison of 4,000 men with 50,000—a Lisbon naval demonstration—a plun dering and desolating system of pirwical hostility against the dependencies of our deserted and sinking Turkish ally in Africa, contrary to solemn pledges given to the British Government. Such are the martial exploits worthy the heroism and energies of the Whig-admired and Whig-be lauded " Napoleon of Peace." But an invasion of Swit zerland by any other " legions" than legions of spies and conspirators would, indeed, have been a haz,rdous experi ment of the citizen paeificalor's conquering prowess. Neither England nor liberty would have any reason to re gret the day he attempted, if lie dared to attempt, to plant with the bloody hand of battle the standard of the barricades upon the grave of Swiss independence.—Morning Herald. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST Cl'IZEt. Wheat. Baricy. ; Beans. Pease. Per Quarter. is.to s. s. to p s. to s. s, s P. to s. Carlisle-----; 75 43 i 37 41 29 67 74 25 46 28 36 M roeth 64 72 31 38 i3d 38 34 =fi 40 42 Penrith 76 I 42 , 30 53 Shcthe 1. 69 1 31 I 43 2J Winchester ....... ;63 72 128 31 20 21 42 45 :35 38 Per Bushel. s.d. s. 1. a. 0. s. (1. s.d. 601. 9. n sd. 00 98 0: 0 40 00 44 00 0f C 0 0 0 0 Covphridge--- 1 9611 0 4 2 46; 2 6 3t 56 0 0 0 Newcastle (Stan.) it 0 10 9 3 6 40. 3 0 3 9 5 0 5 3 0 0 0 0 Northallerton—.....' 9 0 10 3 3 6 461 3 3 4 0 5 6 6 0 1 0 0 0 90 10 6 4 0 48' 3 0 3 4 6 0 6 7 0 0 00 Swansea» 90 0 0 4 G 501 2 6 3 0 0 0 00 00 00 Warwick —....—..... •9 0 11 0 3 0 461 2 0 33 56 6 0 0 0 00 Per 8011. 1 1 tiarnardeastle......... 20 0 21 08 0 90 7 6 88 9 0 :2 7 6 11 0 Durham...,lBo 2lll 70 Richmond .......'{3o 21 0 70 90, 5 0 80 9 8 11 0190 90 5t0ckt0n................ 1 15 0 18 6 D 6 10 GI 5 4 7 0 7 6 BGI 0 0 00 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET —SeFt. iB. V - Aeat, Red, Norfolk and 5uff01k......... 635. to Cgs. fine 60. Lin_ fl‘i ni, t ,, 655. fine 675. Per filishel. s.d. g.41.' 5. (1. 1.. d. Carmarthen......,. ,0 0 9 8 0 0 4 0 Cowbridge---- '9 6 II 0 4 2 4 Newcastle (Stan.) 1 it 0 10 9 3 6 40. Northallerton ........ '9 0 10 3 3 6 4ff 3tone---, , 9 0 10 6 4 0 48' Swansea-----..... 90 0 0 4G 501 Warwick --......... ;9 0 11 0 30 46 Per Moll. ! I tiarnardeastle -... 20 0 23 0 8 0 9 0 7 6 8 8 Durham ..................... 18 0 21 n 7 0 8 0 5 3 7 9 Richmond ---..... rIS 0 21 0 70 9 0 50 Stockton ..........-...'15 0 18 6 96 10 GI 54 70 . WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET -SeFt. 18. V seat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk ...... .-e. 635. to Cos. fine 695. Lin. and Cam. Yorkshire 624 -s. to 65 fine , 6.. - VVliite . -a. 635. to 6 35 . fine , _2;. .- Foreign, tied •-•-S. .....3. to ..-.li. fine -s. White -s. -5. to --s. nne 7 s. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ` , 05 to 334. tine 3as. - Lincolnshire - Yorkshire Wold - --- Foreign - fine -s Beans, Small -6 to r,85. fine 411. --- Tick Oats, Potato 24s to 26_ , . tine 279. --- Poland -s. 0 25. to 25;. fine 46 --- Friezland and Small ........... -- Mealing Sh9lling Malt -.- 4 , 37 8 fine 424. per Load. Rapeseed THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1838. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Oatmeal. Aberdeen 6O to 7C 26 to 27 20 to 21 —to 38 to 40 Berwick 52 54 20 23 18 23 30 43 46 Coldstream Cupar (Fife Dundee Elgin Inverness 62 70 2, 4 :12 25 26 32 33 Kelso . . 45 CO 20 21 19 24 32 32 —' Kirkaldy Perth - 11:.:`, - e Th.: size of the measure varies throughout the country. HADDING TON CORN IIIARKET.—Sept, 28. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. Fir5t......... PO, Od 36s Od 38i 6.4 —8 Out 50s Od Second 76s (Id 32s 0.1 I 30. 01 —s (Id —: Od Third 723 Od I 283 Cd 23; 0.4 I—, 01 —3 Od A verage DALKEITH CORN MARKER—Sept. 87. Barley.Wheat.37sod 3 ( 2 ) s at sd s. 4 E o e : s o e t . 4 13 , ca Beans. Fir5t......... FB s Od Second 763 01 3ls Od 29s Sd —s 0.1 —s o i Third oi 01 EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Sept. 26 We had a large supply of all kinds of Grain to-day, and the sales were rather quick. Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. \ Pease. Beans First 9os. od. '6s GI :32 O 1 49a. Od 49, Od Second 79 0 31 0 2A 0 40 0 46 0 Third Average price of Wheat .. ........... ......T. 17S. 01. PRICES OF PROVISIONS, S.C. Beef, per lb. Os. 4d. to Os. 7tl. Freshßutter,lll........s 11.1. to Is. 0 , Mutton 0 4 0 7 Salt Ditto----. 010 C. Veal ofi 0 8 Ditto, per ex 0 PO 0 Pork 0 0 0 0 Eggs, per dos...—. 0 0 0 8 Lamb, per qr. 1,24 4 0 oatStraw(k t * 0 13 0 0 41 0 Wheat 0 15 0 2uartern Loaf U 1) 0 10i Barley Ditto 0 12 0 Potatoes, 141 b. 0 S 0 0 Hay, perst., 0 010 EDIIIT-URGH MEAL MARKET.--Sept. 2i There was a middling supply of Oatmeal at this day's market, an the sales were ra' her heavy. ler Sack of 2801 b. Imp. rust Oatmeal S econ d ditto B t rleymeal. ... 1 13 0 1 0 l'easeuseal 1 1 GLASGOW CORN , per cwt. 125.-2 d d d ? • • rot Barley A —No. 35 0 to 3S British, old 32 0 33 0 —..— new moder a te i business doing s Wheat, er 2401 b. • • 0 Canada, free .......... 31 0 36 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b English Scottish Per St.ane el 141 b. First Oatmeal .. ...... Second ditto . ........... 0 4 Barleyw.eal.. ....... .... „ 0 1 In Peasemeal ....... ....... 0 110 ,145.-3 d. 16-4th,18i.--Pea 11, 2Cs. MARKET,—Sept. 26. gin Grain ; prices higher. Oats, per '2644 a . d. 5..1. Irish l9 0 to '26 0 ........ British ................... 18 C 20 0 Beans, per 260:b English .......... Scottu.ll Pease, St oVish Oatmeal, per 1.101 h.... Flour, per =11b... 3'2 0 34 0 27 0 29 0 31 0 3110 24 0 24 6 22 0 2.0 21 0 s 0 is 0 54 0 5,8 0 Irish CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at '24 gallons to the bushel.) Whea t. Bark;i: Oats. ------- 8. cl. to ;. d. s. d. to s . 3" Trur0...... 0 25 - 0 12 0 — 0 10 0 Helstone• - 0 k 5 0— 0 9 2 0 8 0 St. Austell.. 0 25 6 0 9 6 0 8 0 Bodmin 0 24 6 0 9 6 0 8 0 Liskeard — 0 22 0 --0 9 6 0 7 0 Launceston - 0 24 6 -- 0 9 0 0 0 0 Camelford 2l 0 24 0— 0 10 0 7 0 8 0 Penzance. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tens. Cwt. Qrs 3,039 21 0 241 16 QuantityQuantit sold ooffliCn6ePPeC4Operer MINING INTEI Quantity of Coppet Ore sold Quantity of tine Copper Average Produce Amount of Sale, 18,803 1 . 2s. Od.—Av, 7 True Standard. 112'. lls. Cd. At one of the most fashionable watering-place in Virginia, white sulphur springs, one of the visitors di ew a pistol at the dinner table of a boarding-house, and shot anpther boarder, named Watkins, dead on the spot. LAW INTELLIGENCE, INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Szrr. 29. ' (Concluded from The Sun of Saturday. ) IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF JULIUS HUTCHINSON, ESQ. Mr. COOKE examined insolvent—He never saw Mr. Beres ford. He acted for the late Sir George Montgomery. He died in July, 1831. He had property in Scotland, Ireland, and England. lie had nothing to do with the property in Ireland. or Scotland. Mr. Stewart was agent to Mr. Mont gomery ; he was one of the executors. The will was proved in England by Mr. Robert Montgomery alone. He was ap pointed his attorney in England. (The letter of the attorney was read, witnessed by Mr. Stewart, on thy 17th of No vember, 1831.) Mr. COOKE continued—He received the sums of SOO/. and 833/. The first sum he paid over, and the second in part. Ile had paid some law charges on account of Sir George, amounting to 46/. Mrs. Beresford was entitle.l to the money for her sole and separate use. He conceived he was acting under Mr. Montgomery's authority. He had not made cut any bills against the estate of Sir George Mont gomery. He had claims against his estate. Ile requested to have the consent of Mr. Montgomery, or that he might be indemnified against any claim which that gentleman might have against hint. The negotiation termilFited in a refusal. A letter, dated May 31, 1838, from the insolvent to Mr. Montgomery, was here put in and rea , ?, at the reading of which the insolvent shed tears. Mr. WOODROFFn put in the probate of the will of Sir George Montgomery, dated October 24, 1831, proved by Robert Montgomery, Esq. It spoke of the English property ; it set out the interest of Mrs. Beresford under the will, which was not chargeable with his debts. It was an office copy of the Scotch will. Mr. Pumurs submitted that Mr. Bcresford's name should be inserted as a creditor on the schedule. Mr. COOKS, contra, said Mr. Beresford was a legatee only. Mr. PHILLIPS submitted that if Mr. Beresford were not a debtor he was a creditor. Ile must have used the money in some way. It was, at all events, a breach of trust. If Ile were a creditor, it was quite clear he bad a right to complain • that a breach of trust had been committed by the insolvent. COURT-The question is whether Mr. Beresford had a right to make use of Mr. Montgomery's name. Mr. NICHOLS submitted that there bad been a vexatious de ' fence to the writ of scirefacias. Costs to the amount of 20/. had been incurred. The debt had gone on for several years, an I Mr. Hut:hinion's continuing in I rison so long was his own choice. Mr. Cools replied, and said it was an ordinary case. The insolvent had prepared a co9novit, but they preferred brin;ing, an action. It had not been the insolvent's choice to remain in prison. It had been a severe punishment to him. Ile sub mitted that the insolvent had been too long incarcerated to call for an adverse jedgmcnt. The up;. using party was en titled to an affidavit from Mr. Montgomery. The else was ultimately adjourned to the 9th of October, for an affidavit from Mr. Montgomery, stating whether he allowed nis name to be used for the purpose of the opposition, Mr. Montgomery having written a letter to the insolvent on the 14th of September instant, denying that he authorised any person to act for him in the matter. The insolvent was described as late of Connaught-terrace, Edgware-road, aqd had been the acting attorney against Mr. Long Wellesley in a Chancery cause in relation to the custody of Mr. Wellesley's children. The case excited very conside rable interest, and the Court was filled during the whole day with most respectable persons. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. On Saturday Mr. Roberts, poor-rate collector of St. James's was charged before Mr. Conant, with having committed an assault on a milkman naate. d Dole, living is Poland-street. The complainant said he called on Mr. Roberts for the pur pose of paying certain parish rates. When shown into the parlour, Mr. Roberts said to hint authoritatively, " Take off your hat." Not liking to comply with this abrupt demand, he refused, upon which Mr. Roberts came towards him, seized him by his arms, and forcibly removed his hat. Complainant went away, but shortly afterwards returned in the company of a witness, and paid the demand upon him. The complainant added, that he considered Mr. Roberts would have been quite as much justified in requiring him to take off any other less decent portion of his dress es he was in asking bias to re move his hat. Mr. Roberts said the complainant walked unceremoniously into his parlour, with ditty shoes, without his coat, and wearing his hat. 1-le civilly requested the complainant to take off his hat while he was in the parlour, and especially as he was in the presence of a lady, or to walk into the passage. The corn plainant replied with great rudeness, upon tvhich he went up to him, and removed his hat. The complainant went away, and returned in a short time to pay the rates, using the grossest description of abuse towards him. The complainant said Mr. Roberts told him that he would kick the terminus of the first gentleman in the land out of his house who should presume to wear his bat in his parlour. Mr. CONANT said the defendant was not justified in taking the complainant's hat off his head. It was an act of in breeding for any person to wear his hat in the private room of any respectable individual, but that did not justify a forci ble removal of the hat. The defendant ought to have taken the complainant by the shoulders and removed him from the room, without, however, using more violence tha❑ sufficed to effect an ejectment. Mr. Roberts ultimately consented to pay a small fine, which with expenses, amounted to seven shillings. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON TIIE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. On Saturday afternoon a lengthened inquiry was instituted at the Railway Arms Inn, Watford, before William Osbaldes. ton, Esq., Coroner for the county of Hertford, on the body of James Daniell, aged 48, a policeman in the employ of the Lon don and Birmingham Railway Company. Mr. Thomas Howe, inspector of the Watford division of the Railway police, about nine o'clock on the evening of Friday last, a short time previous to the arrival of the mail train from London, passed down the line, as was his custom, to inspect the men on duty in his division. Saw deceased near his station at the Watford Tunnel, and ob served that he had not hii own coat and belt on but that of his comrade Wharton, for which he gave him a severe repri mand, and cautioned him not to do so again. Went on down the line and returned shortly after ten o'clock, and saw Wharton, whose duty it was to relieve deceased at ten o'clock. On seeing him he was greatly surprised at discovering him in the same coat deceased had on, in a very torn and dirty con dition, and questioned him as to the cause of it, when he re• plied, " He did not know, he had found it so hung up in his box, but he had reason to believe it had been made use of by the unfortunate man lying dead in the tunnel." Witness said " Good God, what man ?" and Wharton replied that it W 95 his comrade, Daniell, but that he was unable to remove him by himself. Accompanied Wharton back through the tunnel about 200 yards, and discovered the body of the deceased lying on the line, face downwards, weltering in blood, with one of his arms severed from his body, and the back part of his neck and skull laid completely open. lie was quite dead, and was without the great coat witness had reprimanded him for having on instead of his own. Wm. Wharton was a police constable on the London and Birmingham Railway at Watford. At ten o'clock on Friday night went on duty to relieve deceased, and found his (wit ness's) great coat and belt hung up in its proper place in the watchbox, but on seeing its condition suspected something had happened. Proceeded up the tunnel, and found deceased as described by first witness, quite dead. The witness was subject to a severe cross-examination by the Coroner and Jury, but persisted in his assertion, and swore positively that he had not taken the coat from the de ceased's body, but that he found it hung up in the box. (This declaration excited the greatest surprise.) From the cvidencz of the engineers and others connected with the mail train, by which the unfortunate affair must have been occasioned, nothing positive was elicited ; but it is sup posed that on the arrival of the train at the tunnel, the de ceased was in it, and observing the train coming at full speed, had not sufficient time to cross the line, but stood up against the side of the tunnel, with his back to the wall, by which made only the train could clear him, the space being so nar row, and that, fancying the train had passed him, he (the de ceased) had turned round, and has struck on the head by the projecting rail of the Post-office van, which felled him to the ground, under the wheels of the train. Some severe comments basing been passed on the conduct of the police constable Wharton, it being evident that he must have taken the coat from the mangled body of the de ceased, the Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." ATTACK ON STANFIELD HALL BY A MOB.-MILITARY CALLED our. On Monday one of the most extraordinary outrages ever perpetrated was committed h on th• seat of Isaac Jeremy, Esq , by a large mob, headed ma n named Larner, and another person, also from Londony,a m calling himself Daniel Wingfield. Lamer professes to be a claimant to the Stanfield property. The following are the facts conne Lted with this remarkable Esq.,who lately, by Royal liemse, as_ case : Isaac Preston, sumed the name of Jeremy, Is the son and heir of the Rev. George Preston, of Stanfield Hall. His father succeeded to estate by virtue of the will of his elder brother, also of t S h t i : n Stanfield Hall, in May, 1786, and Mr. Jeremy came into pos session on his father's death in 1337, the property having been a century in the family. In Juno last an auction took place of the Rev. George Preston's effects, when on one of the days of the sale a servant informed Mr. Jeremy that there was a person below who claimed to take possession of the place as heir-at-law to the property. Mr. Jeremy, in company with Mr. Culley, the auctioneer, vrett to a room on the first floor, where he saw two men, one of whom was the prisoner John Lamer, and asking them what business they had there, de sired them to leave the house. The person who accompanied Lerner said—" This gentleman is Mr. John Larner, the heir at law to this property, and he has come to take possession of asked the s p ea k er if h e were a hi s estate." Mr. Jeremy lawyer, and on being answered in the negative, be told them that if they had any claim to his property the way was open to them to put it forward by means of legal and not illegal proceedings. The intruders were again desired to leave the house, which they refused to do, and Mr. Jeremy sent to Wymondham for the police officers, who removed them from the premises. On Tuesday, the 11th of September, eight or nine prsons violently entered the mansion, then occupied by a lady of for tune, Mrs. Sims, and demanded of her the keys of the house, desiring her to lcave the place. On the 20th of September Larner again entered the premises, accompanied by a black- smith, when assistance being at hand, and finding that he should be taken into custody, he took to his heels and escaped, declaring he wou'd return again. On the following day handbills against Mr. Jeremy were distributed. Monday last Lanier appeared in front of Stanfield Hall with a very large party of men, collected from the different parishes of the neighbourhood. About eleven o'clock in the morning they demanded admittance of Mrs. Sims, declaring they would break open the house if it were refused to them. She did refuse them, upon which Lanier took a crow bar from out of a paper in which it had been wrapped, and hroke in the door, when the party rushed into the place. Soon after entering, the mob fol lowed Larner up stairs to a bedchamber, in which Mrs. Sims had taken refuge. Larner entered first, and desired her to leave the house, which she refused to do. Miss Bloomfiel:, of iWymondham House, at this time came up stairs into the room, and joined Mrs. Sims in her refusal to leave the house. After ca,raing Mrs Sims out of the house, Lamer went up stairs again, seized Miss Woomfield in his arms, and forcibly carried her out. The mob then carried the furniture, bedding, &c., out of the house, and placed it on the lawn, after which, they broke open all the cupboards, throwing their contents out of the windows. They afterwards barricaded the windows and doors, letting no person in or out of the house except their own party, and placed a heap of paving -stones, brickbats, and other missiles before each of the upper windows, in prepara tion for a siege. During{ the time this outrage was carrying into effect, Mr. Jeremy, who is a county magistrate, hastened to the scene with two constables, where he found the fur niture of the mansion lying on the ground, exposed to a heavy rain. Between :three and four o'clock the Reverend Robert Wilson and W. R. Cann, Esq., came up with a civil force, and succeeded in taking some of the bludgeon-men into custody, but the rioters made a sortie from the house and instantly rescued them. Finding the civil farce inadequate, the military were sent for from Norwich, and about a quarter before six a detachment of the 4th Dragoon Guards, under the command of Major Makepeace, came upon the ground. Before their arrival, however, the fellows in the mansion se veral times rushed out, and very severely beat the magis trates, particularly Mr. Jeremy. The military having been desired to load their pieces with ball cartridges, the magic-. trates read the Riot Act, and caned on the misguided men to surrender rather than there should be a shedding of blood. The military took up a position so as to surround the house, and cut off all attempts at escape ; the men inside then, having had five niinntes' grace given to them to make up their minds, declared, before the expiration of the time, their intention to surrender, and opening - one of the doors, came out one by one, and were tied togetherly ropes, to prevent their escape, to the number of sirty-three. They were put into waggons and con ducted to Norwich Castle, under an escort of the military. On Tuesday morning the body of prisone:s were brought from the Castle, and evidence was heard against them before the Hon. and Rev. R. Wilson, Mr. Cann, and other Magis trates. On Wednesday the prisoners in custody were brought down again, and fresh evidence being brought forward, the prisoner Daniel Wingfield asked for and obtained an adjourn ment of a few days before the case was finally heard, that the prisoner might have proper advice. The persons engaged in this most extraordinary outrage came from different parishes of the county of Norfolk ; only 25 of them are labourers, the others being little trade:onen, to whom ignorance cannot be pleaded as an excuse for their conduct, 34 of them being able to read and write, seven can read alone, and 39 can neither read nor write. Three of the men were liberated on bail ; the others remain in custody until the next examination.— Abridged from the Norfolk Chronicle. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH. SEPT. 30.—The Cleopatra, 26, Captain lion. George Grey, arrived on Sunday last, from the South American station, bringing home on merchants' account nearly two millions of dollars. Th% Pantaloon brig, Lieutenant Bevan, proceeded this evening with dispatches for Lord John Hay, at San Sebastian. The Meteor steamer, Lieutenant Pritchard, arrived on Wednesday, having towed the Icarus, It) guns, from Ply_ mouth, as far as Lymington-creek, where she will be hauled on the beach, as a barrack for the seamen of the coast guard station. The Larne, 18, was in the Straits of 'Malacca on the 21st of May, on her way to Canton. Sailed on Wednesday the Apollo troop-ship, Mr. Kerley Master, for Cork and Ceylon. The Pluto steamer, from the River, for Plymouth, called in here on Wednesliy. Arrived on Tuesday the Pique, 33, Captain Boxer, from Sheerness. The Actaeon, 28, and Orestes, 23, will go out of harbour cn Monday. The crew of the Act mis increased from 160 to 175 men. The Hastings, Cleopatra, and Pique were paid wages this morning. The Clio, 18, Captain Richardson, will be paid off on Wed nesday next. The Magicienne was paid off on Thursday last, on which occasion the officers gave a most ,umptuous parting dinner to their Captain, at the George Hotel, which the Lady of Cap tain Mildmay also graced with her presence. The Sapphire, 28,, has been dismasted, and is to be exa mined as to what service she is fitted for. The Arab transport left Deptford oa the 22d instant, for Cork, to take on board a detachment of the 23d regiment, for Halifax. The Stromboli steamer is ordered to be built with the ut most dispatch-100 men are at present employed on her. Five first.class boys and 15 second-class boys have been discharged from the Victory into the Hastings, to be at the disposal of the Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean. Harbour.—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Actaeon, Orestes, Clio, Meteor, and Messenger steamers. At Spitheacl.—Hastings, Edinburgh, Pique, C'eopatra, Gillmore convict ship, Weimer Castle, and Zenobia East In diamen, Perfect Southseaman. A detachment of the Bth regiment has been moved from Guernsey to Gosport, to proceed with a detachment of the 89th, to the West Indies. The remaining two companies of the sth depot embarked on Sunday in the Royal Adelaide steamer, a very fine craft, but with no accommodation for the men below—the conse quence was, that the men must have been from Sunday after noon till Tuesday exposed to one continued shower of rein. We cannot think this to have been either beneficial to their health or economical for the Government. The Admiralty are putting a few 68-pound guns into all the ships capable of carrying them, and the Horse Guards are fur nishing the army with percussion muskets. APPOINTMENTS. —Captains-Thomas White, to Royal Ade laide, vice Sir Wm. Elliott, deceased. Commanders—Wm. Smyth, to the Grecian. Lieutenants—Michael do Courcy to the Racer ; James C. Robinson, to the Grecian ; Thornton Eyre, to the Pilot ; Charles Hall, to the Rolla ; Charles Holbrook, to the San Joseph ; G. C. Randall, to the North Star ; Henry Barnard Davis, and J. A. Mends, to the Actaeon, the latter vice Peirce, whose appointment is cancelled. Surgeons—Dr. Wallace, to the Wolverine; Dr. John Munro, to the Grecian ; Mr. Harvey Morris, to the Racer. Assistant Surgeons—W. M'Kinley, to the Grecian ; D. G. Walker, to the Rolla ; Trail, to the Racer. Pursers—James Gregory, to the Grecian; C. M'Dermott, to the Racer. Masters—James Henderson, Esq. to be Queen's Harbour master at Plymouth, with charge of the Breakwater, vice Tucker, deceased; Mr. Robert Easto to be Assistant-Master- Attendant at Chatham Dock-yard, vice Henderson ; Mr. Ro bert Fulton, Master of the Britannia, to command the Jupi ter, vice Easto ; Mr. F. J. 0. Evans, Second Master, to the Rolla ; Mr. N. B. Pearce, Acting- Master, to the Gre cian ' • Mr. Griffiths, Second Master, to the Actaeon ; Mr. Webb, Second Master of the Actaeon, to be Master's Assis tant of the Victory. Mates—Joseph Nourse, to the Royal Adelaide ; E . K. Barnard, to the Gorgon ; E. M. Lyons, to the Melville ; Henry Croft, to the Rover; C. J. P. Glinn, to the Pilot ; W. B. Wills, to the Actaeon ; W. Bridge, and T. Belgrave, to the Excellent. Masters' Assistants—Thomas Huss, to the Melville ; W. Grindley, to the Petrel. Volunteer, Ist Class—Prince, to the Pique. Clerks—R. H. Richards (additional), to the Royal Ade laide; Daniel May, Clerk-in-charge, to the Rolla. Naval Instructor—Robert Scott, to the Vanguard. Warrant Officers—John Gilbert, Gunner; W. Remington, Boatswain, and Francis Devonshire, Carpenter, to the Gre cian ; Thomas Smith, Boatswain, and William Houghton, Gunner, to the Racer. (From the Devonport Independent.) PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 29.—We are gratified to state that the Lords of the Admiralty have conferred the appointment of Second Master- Attendant at Chatham Dock-yard on a very zea!ous and meritorious officer, Mr. R. Easto, Commander of her Majesty's ship Jupiter, vice Henderson. Mr. Robert Ful ton, Master of the Britanuin, succeeds Mr. Easto in the com mand of the Jupiter, which ship will sail in a few days for Cork, to embark troops for Ceylon. Lieut. Charles Hall, of her Majesty's ship San Josef, is appointed to the command of the Rolla, 10, which ship was commissioned on Tuesday. Her Majesty's ships Pilot, 16, Commander Ramsey, and Rover, 16, w Commander Symonds, arc ordered to have two 32-pounders, medium guns, and to be fitted with shell rooms on a new construction. The Pilot is to be detained for that purpose, and will not be completed before the Ist or 2d of October. Her Majes'y's Troop-ship Jupiter, Mr. Robert Fulton, Master, Commander, was towed out of Harbour on Mondsy, by the Meteor, steam-vessel. She was paid advance of wages on Tuesday, and is expected shortly to sail for Cork, to embark the 95th Regiment for Ceylon, from whence she will return with the 61st Regiment. - Her Majesty's Troop-ship Atholl, Mr. C. P. Bellamy, Master-Commander, haying had her defects made good, was towed out of Harbour on Monday, by the Meteor, steam vessel, and sailed the same day for Quebec. Her Majesty's Packet, Nightingale, which was ordered to be sold out of the service, is to be fitted as a depot for the re ception of stores on the North Coast of Spain, in room of the Goldfinch. Her Majesty's ship, Venerable, 74, was warped from her moorings alongside the jetty on Friday to be taken into dock in order to be broken up. Her Majesty's Steam-vessel, Pluto, Lieutenant J. Lu nn , arrived on Thursday from Woolwich, and came into Harbour yesterday for a supply of coals. Her Majesty's ship Pique, 36, Captain Edmund Boxer, ar rived at Portsmouth from Sheerness, on Tuesday. Her Majesty's ships Malabar and Inconstant, were at Que bec, Aug. 21, all well. Her Majesty's ship Hercules, 74, Captain Toup Nicolas, hris left Cork with the 48th Regiment for Gibraltar, from d whence she will take the 52d Regiment to Barbadoes, an thence the 36th Regiment to Halifax. Her Majesty's sloop Champion, 13, Commodore King, is daily expected home from the West Indies. her Majesty's ship Bellerophon.—We have received letters from the Bellerophon, dated Athens, Aug. 27, at which time all were well on board. Letters have also been received from her Majesty's ship Stag, 46, Commodore Sullivan, up to the 10th of July. The vessel was then at Rio ; all well. In the Sound—Jupiter, and Lollard, Swedish brig. In B.,rripool—Piute. In Harnoaze—Royal Adelaide, Sin Josef, Pilot, Rover, Grecian, Petrel, Rolla, Buzzard, St-/q.- ; u11, Reindeer. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Leeds Mercury.) THE TRADE CY LEEDS.—On Saturday last there was more business done than on any market day for some wok s previous, but on Tuesday the market was dull at both hells —taking the two days tegether there has been a fair a verage business done thi3 week : prices remain steady and the stocks continue low. Business is quite us brisk in the warehouses as of late ; for although the wholesale houses have not done quite so much, there has been an increase of business don° with country drapers. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, TUESDAY.—Although a fair quan tity of goods changed hands to-day the business was by no means so large as for several weeks past; in fact, we are noo between two seasons, the demand fir winter goods be g inning to give way for the spring. The light fancy m anufacturers are busily preparing new patterns in expectation of brisk trade for spring goods. Orders are already coming in, and we„ may shortly expect great activity in this extensive branch octi industry. Consequently there were few buyers to-day, a n little stir in wools, which maintain former prices. BRADFOhIa M ARKET, THURSDAY.—There has been qu ite 80 average amount of sales today in the piece market , as, con trasted with the last four market days. Some are of opinen that the market to-day has been rather heavier, whilst Ol e ; manufacturers state they have sold freely. The contin ucu high price of yarn restrains them from accepting prices whi ch otherwise they might feel disposed to take. Meanwhile th merchants arc cautious, and it is scarcely probable th at at thise season of the year anything approaching to a further advance in prices will be obtained. The demand for yarn continues uite equal to what it has been for several weeks past ; still the manufacturers purchase with much caution, being a nxiou s to obtain it much lower. They find that they are unable fu advance their goods in the same proportion that yarn ha $ advanced, but there is not the least appear ance of a decline in price. A check has been given to the late attempt to ad" vance priers, which accounts for less business having beet done in combing wool ; therehowever, a prevailin_g opinion that prices will remain for some time comparatieeli steady. HALIFAX MARKET, SATURDAY. — The re has been an are, rage business done in stuffs to-day. We have had more in quiry for low and heavy goods, which for some time ba le been neglected ; no alteration in prices. There is an provement in the yarn market; the demand is better, an._ prices quite firm. There is a regular steady business doingfo"; combing wools; prices in the country still keep high, andsvd, the present there is no expectation of their being lower. dle wethers fetch up to 131. per sack. e WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 28.—. Prices o, descriptions of long wool are firm ; manufacturers having so t ; plied themselves liberally during the last fortn i g ht, sales ti'ca week have not been so extensive. Short wools are in g° demand, at former prices. YORK WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 27.—The market for we?! has been well attended by respectable buyers, but the b e _ s r l y ness was mostly confined to the wools in the warehouses, v!,„' few fresh lots being shown. The market was rather sharp' and a goed deal of business was done. Half hog an d e a r 15d. to 16d., locks with cots 103. to Ild. per lb. In °- wool very little doing. The Bristol wool fairs are in future to be I ell on fl a first Wednesdays in March and September. CHURCH RATES, ST. GEORGE'S COLE G r AI I I IC NORVICII. —At a meeting this du in Vestry, assembl e " id above parish, Mr. John Judd Sharpe, the Churchwarden, he bad convened the meeting of the parishioners f or the Pu,:d pose of laying the parish accounts before them, those nPan't by the late Churchwardens, as well as a prospective itee°.vu,-d for the now necessary repairs of the Church; having eiChurch, an order from the Archdeacon to colour and clean the o. he there fore called upon them to grant him a rate of 1 B• I re • in the pound to discharge the old accounts, the necessqqls, pairs now required, the payment of the parish oMeerl u t -3m°a and other incidental expenses up to Michaelma s next, ing together to the sum of 671. Os. Sid. The parish had e , 14 , him to the situation of Churchwarden, unsol i c ited on bisPfuty and being now so placed he should not ha ve done hi' The had he not on this occasion assembled them togeth er ' bet should like to sec all the accounts satisfac toril y adjusted, ro, without making any observation as to th e p ro p riety or iln!_cb. pricty of a Church-rate, it being of very little moment locuid vidually to him which way they might decide. All he n ot say Was, that if they did not grant him the means he ca.' bit perform the acts required. He considered he had done c duty by calling the meeting, and should now leave the cl u , tion in their hands, giving his voice in favour of the r, a.° f Mr. Sheriff Francis, after animadverting . upon the injust! ce :a Church-rates, moved " that the consideration of malct i t a y Church-rate for this parish, do stand adjourned till this twelve months," seconded by J. Bateman, Esq . On the °II -11 ' tition being put by the Churchwarden, a large in ajoritys lle . favi T m i r le of fo it il — ow N il o i r g w i i s ch Mercury . a ans wer s wer returned rsll Bl Lobau to the address from the Birmingham National Guard of Paris, on its reported Petit i°n f `" l. Electoral Reform :—" Gentlemen—l have received the eater- Without n dress you have done me the honour to send. ing into the merits of the subject, I have no hesitationodlie, is, firming you that I have always considered armed other unfit to deliberate upon political questions. If it were loved wise, we should fall under tyranny, which I have ever under any form." le time IMPOSITIONS ON NEWSPAPERS.---FOr SOn pro past On a t o the ati past we have observed paragraphs in various London_a2.7,or, vincial journals, rclatiig to supposed occurrences in \v_T at i u ns which have been either totally false or shameful exagger of trifling events; but we have not thought it worth oua to trouble ourselves about them. There is, bewe ve Pirev e6r graph in the papers of this day, headed " Destructive _foie Windsor," which we now notice only to put our contemn, &- on their guard against being in future so imposed ho On scribes with so much particularity an event whic h " be en B 6 nately not occurred, that the imposition must be! is a t oll° wilful as it is a wicked one. Tl - e whole paregr a P h of falsehoods.— Windsor Express of Saturday. , Dr. LARGE CAIRNGORUNI.—A few weeks 4-'6,00 Clark, of Ballater, found, on Culbean, a very fine s P o c o un't of the Cai,ngorum, weighing upwards of ele ve l n v i erci u `' With the exception of a yet larger piece, now at 1 1 01 . 0 the House (as the veritable Neu, Deeside Guide in' ° of oil: world), this is the largest specimen yet discovered, co. I was a very valuable, and is a very beautiful nativ e f e et, was found by digging to the depth of fou r or 6 v e the g e- Clark having perceived indications of the presence `ticipatr„ in that situation. He found it exactly where If this large stone were cut by a lapidary, it vvou worthy a lace i y p n a royal cabinet. hodat,' form cep Cor e T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Sze., " t hen l3 o l London (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street), inf°lll"l'Al:ltrh that he offers SILVER WATCHES, on the Ceiebrate,Uch 0.0,. LEVER CONSTRUCTION (the most accurate oh wf,; wet ie s, can be made), for SIX GUINEAS EACH, with t iw our b°.o - e. the detached escapement, jewelled indointai capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamelled dial , an j _ b a ing power to continue going while winding up. __s e conu N.B.—lf in Hunting Cases, 103. Gd. extra. Watches purchased in exchange. e l BIRTHS. t-C °lo l A At Leith Fort, on the 26th ult., the lady ' f Lieuterlan od, ° .o coda H. W. Gordon, commanding th Royal Artillery in 'etc e daughter. A Fre der' On the 27th ult., in Doctors'-commons, the lag 0f wet, T. Pratt, Esq., Esq., D.C.L., of a son, still born. l a ce On the 27th ult., Mrs. Reginald Read , of Artillery-Pofiourf, of a son. On the 2 ,lace' ult., Mrs. Mark Hunter , A rtillery-1 0, ray ° square, of a sou. vr° On the 27th ult., in Upper Portland-place, War ds f a derby' Mrs. George Williamson, of a son. Egl'' ° On the 27th ult., the lady of Will i a m En `wife of ° daughter. Rev. ThomasOnthe2B Dry, thult of a a ' a t theahugFotreer.st, Waltharnst ° ''' th° Arl 6e ' MA RRIED 1 A. 13. On the 26th ult., at St. George's, Carnberrie•ld' f,• s cp C harle s Esq., to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of 11. Oxe nf° l /. 1. join° roarli tl : On the 27th ult., at St. Mark's, Kennington, '--• d, to • vva.' Hobson, M.D., of Hobart Town, Van Diernen's I.court, ret, second daughter of John Adamson, Esq., of 13.1 „roll, brook, and Prince's-place, Kennington. D f,epii - iat oeS On the 27th ult., at St. Mary's, blington, James late ' rr tha °l ' h ,•a the Esq., of Rotterdam, to Jessy, eldest daughter of t Young, Esq., of Rotterdam. Ebq.,On othfeL2i7ntcholunl,ts...,inant Lincoln's-inn, 11 A 1a n r n y a 's f &Inc late Francis Benjamin Bed‘vell, Esq. Esq ., A ° fleet - On the 27th ult., at Axminster, George Lett ..., i'ervvarw ton House, to Mary, widow of the late Rev. D. ~,f, 1 110° d, of Limington and Comb Pyne. 11, ,"'' Alter - On the 27th ult., at St. James's, Clerkenscdest daulr ,;llNTariaal,thyaornunstgoe:t, ci J su f f, e o ' hte r of to Roberts, jsn., of Nottingham, to Esther Eliz a ' c vq., Thomas 'Watson', Claremont-square, Pentonville.,,ucker, vsq. , of On the 27th ult., at Wandsvrorth, Henry ''', L forris , ' Adelaide, youngest daughter of the late Jau les ' Willie East-hill, Wandsworth. ag , ' the f AU, man At Fort George, Upper Canada, on the 20th of pe gs froo l Johnson, r,sq., of her Majesty's Commissariat, to ; Niag ara , second daughter of John Moore, Esq., M- 1) " ° Longford, Ireland. On the 25th ult., at W siS •' id Pla ce ' late aged 73. G e org e On the 26th Marylebons, ult., in Foley-place, St• p r ice, Knowles, Esq , aged 66. D 1 r e ' f 0 8 edDdinigEtol)n. Castle, Lion solicitor,-it the 26th ult., at the house of her brother, I:.trdaughter 0 Tenbn.ry, aged 23, Eleanor, the yn e u , q-esnt-road•sesbitt, Samuel Price, Esq.. of Dover -place. N c r'' . f gel On the 27th ult at Stockwell, the infant son o , Georg e Esq., of Bedford-row. : , berrrel" On the 27th ult., in Addington-place, ‘. 1311L- ..n Thorn° Harris, Esq., aged 83. ~.,,a 6,, On the 25th ult., in Upper Thames-street, abed Cartwright, Esq., deputy of the ward of 13ridge• Samuel ''' On the 27th ult., at The Grove, Croy4oo9 - • -- Esq., aged 61. r 10. --- V 01JSG' voni'l London: Printed and Published by AIURDO din the c 112, Strand, at The Snit Office, No. 12, itrali 1 of 111idlese*,—Monday, Ociober 1, le3S• ~'. l